I’ve followed a bit and know there were several attempts by a rogue jackal prosecutor to indict via spurious grand juries. Delay spent 8 million on lawyers per his appearance on Huckabee earlier this year.
I should backtrack Michelle Malkin but I’m sure was she (and her pal Laura Ingraham) were claiming Nancy Pelosi did near same, difference being CA did not allow this while Texas did. NP paid fine to FEC. Am I dreaming?
Why couldn’t he get a change of venue for the trial, out of Austin? For $8 million his lawyers should have been able to show that Austin juries are biased and got the trial moved somewhere else. I’m not sure about Texas, but changes of venue happen all the time in other states. If this is a conviction for a state crime, one option DeLay may have is for Gov. Perry to pardon him or commute his sentence to time served and a fine (if he serves any time.)